Dairy Goddess Knows Butter Is Better! You Should Too!

After a year and a half of planning…my daughter Tara celebrated her wedding to Shane Rodrigues on November 2, 2013. It was a perfect day. We could not be any more happy. We managed to run business as usual and Dairy Goddess Farmstead Cheese and Milk as well as Tony Martin Dairy continued with out a hitch. It took a team effort and prayer and we got it done. We appreciate all of the well wishes that we received and are grateful to all of our customers blessings and support.

The Original Team Dairy Goddess

Along with getting back to reality I want to get back to my blog which has taken the back seat through all of this.

It is no secret that I believe that we need to take our food back “old school”. Less processing, more natural. Keeping the integrity of the food that we consume for maximum benefit, the way it was intended.

My cousin, Anita Caole, shared with me the Margarine VS Butter information. I thought it was fitting as we are getting towards the holidays with extra cooking and baking. We should be striving towards more WHOLE and NATURAL foods with everything in moderation. We have been on a dangerous path with the “mutilation” of food by processing. Read your labels….less is more! Besides, it just tastes better! I hope you find this information helpful. Please pass it on…many of us do not have any idea!

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings….

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end…gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

Very High in Trans fatty acids.

Triples risk of coronary heart disease …

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

Lowers quality of breast milk

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.